Word: liz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felt that this was an occasion on which Fleet Street could forget its animosities," said Rothermere, who arranged the affair. "But I assure you, they'll be resumed tomorrow." Said the Beaver: "I have destroyed completely the foolish maxim that the good die young." "Trouble with me," Horsewoman Liz Whitney Tippe+t, 55, once complained as she surveyed the thoroughbreds at her 4,000-acre Llangollen Farm in Virginia, "is that I'm always buying and never selling." But Liz, a Main Line socialite who was John Hay Whitney's first wife, has no such compunction about...
...Liz, whose race horses alone brought her a tidy $254,855 last year, scarcely needs the money. Then how come the sale? "It's last year's jewelry," said...
...sang an hour's worth of love songs (This Nearly Was Mine, It Never Entered My Mind), got a standing ovation from a crowd of 1,000, hugs and handshakes from Mentor Eddie Cantor, and then went off to celebrate, flanked by Mike Todd Jr., son of Liz's third husband, and blonde Actress Annette Cash, his current steady. Wrote Columnist Walter Winchell, on hand to cover the event: "He stopped the show colder than a faithless wife's heart." Never one to toe the party line, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 28 (TIME cover, April 13), stomped...
...preview showing of scenes from new Fox films. The ploy failed. Twenty minutes of movies helped no one to forget that Fox lost $22.5 million on last year's operations, and next year's hopes rest entirely with the $30 million production of Cleopatra. The fact that Liz Taylor's take from Cleopatra will exceed $1,300,000 brought a bitter joke; a furious stockholder nominated her for the board of directors...
...Liz's peccadilloes throw a lurid light on Hollywood's supercolossal, cast-of-thousands inefficiency. Marlon Brando has already taken more than $1,000,000 in salary from the Mutiny on the Bounty production, conducting mutinies of his own that helped drive production costs beyond $20 million. Films exist at the whim of their stars. Marilyn Monroe's various illnesses have kept her away from Fox's Something's Got to Give; says Di rector Billy Wilder, who knows her from the anguished days of Some Like It Hot: "It used...